Dr Bayle 'ditugaskan' untuk embalm jenazah HRH Abu Bakar, so his body preserved during the long journey back to Johore.

Method used by Dr Bayle is unknown as modern embalming only start in 1900 by Dr Thomas Holmes from New York. However, Dr Bayle did recorded an 'insight' during interview with British Newspaper:

It was written :

"33, Keppel-street,
Russell-square, London, aquiet-looking early Victorian red-brick house ofexactly
similar appearance to hundreds of otherhouses in red-brick rows in Bloomsbury,
lay thebody of his late Highness the Sultan of Johore.The house is that of Dr.
Charles Bayle,Chevalier de la Legion d'Honnear, Commandeurde St.
Gregoire-le-Grand, a French scientistwho has made a special study of the art
ofembalming. When you enter at the strict doorthe faint scent of heavy perfume
strikes you,and grows less faint as you walk along the hall,and as you walk
down white-carpeted stairs intoa chamber built out at the back of the
housewhere once was a garden, the heavy perfumecomes at you heavier and more
powerful, andsuparates itself into several distinct and con-flicting
scene's.The dim whiteness of the room, the Leavyperfumes, the sombre torch of
red tell quite as plainly what it is that lies behind the screen ascould
black velvet and silver, burning tapers,and the damp scent of dying flowers. In
themiddle of the room on a low trestle bed, white-draped, the dead Sultan lies,
to all appearancecalmly and peacefully asleep. He is dead asany Sultan in
history, but the face has notchanged in the least. Dr Bayle's balsams have
changed death into sleep, and he lies with hisgrey moustache and wavy
hair and his blackarched eyebrows, his handsome soldierly duskyfeatures
smoothed and softened, and with hiseyelids lightly closed in the calm and
perfectrepose which easy slumber brings to the face ofthe man of the world. He
looks exactly as onewho knew anything of the Sultan would expecthim to look in
sleep.

On his breast there lies abound manuscript copy of the Koran, and
underit, placed there by the priest in accordance withsome custom or belief, a
pair of scissors.

Onthe white door at the side of the bed are threelarge paper
bags of perfumes—one of rosemary,one of patchouli; and the other of
rose-leaves.The wonderful triumph over decay has been effected by Dr.
Bayle's system of arterialinjection. But not that system only has beencarried
out. In the Oriental system ofembalming the body is eviscerated and theorgans removed
and purified. In the old daysthey knew no other way, and what they did inthe
old days is according to Eastern ideas theonly decorous thing to-day.

So the
doctor has taken out the internal organs, washed and cleansedthem,
applied his preservative treatment tothem separately, and then replaced them in
their proper positions. But that was only to satisfy the ideas of
the Sultan's Court as towhat was right and in order.

Still it was notnecessary;
it was not scientific, he says. Four pints of the preservative fluid, of
whichhe holds the secret, forced through the arteriesby air pressure would have
sufficed. "You see," he says, "the body is already say
beginningto dry; the hand it becomes to be a piece like of wood; the foot
it is the same; the face I treat it in a different way, so as to keep it
theappearance of softness, but you shall see thatear, it is already like a
piece of leather." Theear looks warm snd soft and natural enough,but when
you touch it it is set and stiff andhard. The legs are bound tightly round
withnarrow strips of cloth and another goes undereach instep, keeping the feet
in position. Ina day or two the bindings will be varnished, andthen all will be
ready for the sleeping Sultan tobe put in his coffin with the rosemary and
thepatchouli and the rose leaves on top of him."And those bandages are not
removed when the embalming is complete ?" the "Pall Mall"
visitor asked. "These bandages," said theDoctor, "shall be
removed never."

Never is along time. Perhaps the Court embalmint of thePharaohs
used the same word about the mummycloths to the newsmonger who described
theprocess in hieroglyphics. But he did not forseeBritish Museums and the
science of Egyptology.Who knows in what museum this mummy maybe eventually
deposited, and in what as yetunborn lsnguage it may be lectured upon whenthe
name of the Sultan and all that he did shallhave been forgotten? For the
embalmed body, says Dr. Bayle, will last, if not for ever, yeslonger than
the recollection of the breach ofpromise case, and longer than the State
ofJohore. The embalmed body will remain whereit is for two months longer, and
then the Sultanwill go back to Johore to be buried"